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It’s difficult to tell if this is just a little fear-mongering, or cause for real concern, but it looks like there’s another iPhone / touch exploit out there lurking on the unseen horizons of those device’s browsers. According to reports, a memory exploit — similar to the previously-patched TIFF exploit — has been discovered which affects units with firmware 1.0.2 all the way up to 1.1.3, thus carrying over to new 16GB iPhones and 32GB touches. Apparently, all you have to do is browse over to a site containing the malicious code, and it triggers a memory-exhausting script which causes the phone or iPod to crash. At this point, it doesn’t appear to be anything more than a nuisance which can be easily circumvented by disabling JavaScript for Safari, though that hardly qualifies as a fix. To date, Apple hasn’t issued a patch for the problem, but keep in mind it’s only been a known issue since January 24th.

[Via iPhone World]

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We’ve never really understood the luxury cellphone market, but color us flat-out confused (and nauseated) by Givori’s latest ultra-high-end handset, the Serendipity. We’re not certain what upgrades you get over a standard Nokia N76 for the $3,077 asking price, but let us just suggest that you save the money and hand your existing phone off to a kid with a Bedazzler. No one will know the difference.

[Via Luxurylaunches]

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Hey, look at that — the Squeezebox Duet just popped up for pre-order. Slim Devices’s answer to Sonos was pretty impressive when we played with it at CES, and it looks like pricing is exactly what we heard: $400 for the wireless controller and a single Squeezebox Receiver, which can stream music off your home machine or tune into Rhapsody or Pandora. Units are expected to ship at the end of the month, but it doesn’t look like you can buy additional $150 receivers or $300 controllers yet.

[Thanks, Gregg]

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Business types, it’s time to finish your spreadsheets and get excited. Palm is dropping their neat Centro smartie right here in the UK.

Running on Palm’s own OS 5.4.9, rather than the Windows flavoured system they’ve been favouring with the likes of the Treo, the Centro is already a hit Stateside.

Now you can snag one over here for a penny shy of 200 nicker, minus a SIM card of course.

That’ll get you a fairly puny 1.3-meg camera and no 3G, but if you’re after an email work horse, then this is the phone for you. Palm’s messaging system is dead easy to use and something we’ve been fans of here at T3 Towers for some time now.

You get a chat style view, so none of that farting about trying to find old messages. The thread’s right there in front of you.

It also has support for 4GB SD cards, so you can stack away up to 1,000 tunes if it takes our fancy too.

We all know that the U600 is a cracking phone. Clocking in at a mere 10.9mm, it’s the thinnest slider around and has got plenty of neat features on board.

Samsung though, has seen fit to tinker with its high end war horse, offering haptic touch as part of an update announced last night in London.

The tech means the touch sensitive keys now respond with a neat vibrate every time you fondle them. This is something LG has been fond of in the past, shoving it onto the Viewty. Motorola has also stuck in on the E8, which we fooled around with at CES.

The new U600 is out now on O2 contract, or £99.99 SIM free if you’re feeling flush. Not bad considering you get a 3.2 meg-peeper, 60MB of on board memory and Bluetooth 2.0.

As relaunches go, this one is pretty vanilla, so we’re hoping that this is just an entrée before Samsung serves up more meaty mobile morsels next week at MWC in Barcelona.

We’ll be bringing you live coverage of MWC, so be sure to keep it here for all the newest phones as they’re outed.